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What does Nucleus Capital invest in?
Nucleus Capital invests most often at Venture and Pre-seed (57% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Food and Nutrition.
Nucleus Capital highlights
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13 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Pre-seed: 57% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $2.4M
What they do
Nucleus is a first-check investor backing technical teams at the earliest stage.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $1.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- FoodNutrition
- Based in
- Berlin, Germany
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first37 appearances
- 2026
10 rounds
- Sept
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2025
12 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2024
10 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Jun
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2023
1 round
- May
- 2022
1 round
- Jun
- 2021
2 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Undated
1 round
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Nucleus Capital's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
Equation Capital1 fundFund Vintage Committed Nucleus Capital - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
7 of 19 we have independently watched raise
ApohaFood technology NucleusFood technology NucleusNeo industrials NucleusNeo industrials NucleusPlanet-a-foodsProgrammable biology NucleusEndolithminingFood technology NucleusFood technology NucleusKey informationLinkedInNC–INC–IINeo industrials NucleusProgrammable biology NucleusProgrammable biology NucleusReviewsYurigravity
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.